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Infinite & Inevitable: Chapter 1
After coming across a set of standing stones, Lord John Grey finds himself on Fraser's Ridge, but absolutely nothing is as he remembers it.
Meanwhile, Jamie Fraser has a surprise visit from his best friend, only Lord John seems to believe there's much more to their story.
A New History of Fandom Purges
On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”
On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.
Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…
HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!
1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed
1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites
1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere
1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites
1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites
2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites
2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again
2001 - Tripod Massacre
2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN
2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks
2002 - FFN bans porn
2002 - FFN bans RPF
2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes
2004 - FFN bans script format
2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic
2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded
2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again
2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes
2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal
2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids
2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it
2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites
2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted
2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted
2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly
2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity
2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic
2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN
2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence
2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org
2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn
2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic
2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content
2014 - Quizilla shuts down
2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors
2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids
2014 - Viddler deletes vids
2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank
2016 - y!Gallery deleted
2016 - Elfwood goes offline
2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic
2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama
2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad
2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs
2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban
2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning
2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed
This is only a small taste of the many times that:
Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.
Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.
Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.
Fans grudge reported each other.
Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.
It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.
Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.
This is why we need AO3.
And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.
So grateful for the historical memory and the long view on a phenomenon many of us have come to late, and/or take for granted.
And this is why AO3 generates twice its goal amount in just a few days: they are irreplaceable.
As someone semi-concerned we’re entering a danger period for fandom as we’ve all come to know it, this was a fascinating skip through history.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Baz is a vampire. Simon knows Baz is a vampire and Baz knows that Simon knows. What Baz doesn’t know is what being a vampire actually means. And that’s about to make life more difficult for him than usual.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Canon compliant. The war begins. Jace leaves with Valentine, playing the part of the loyal soldier even as he feeds the Clave intel on the Circle’s every move. The war goes on, and Alec watches his parabatai fall apart.
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It’s been two weeks since Jace had left with Valentine, passing through the portal and onto his father’s ship. His base of operations, a vessel of war that moves from port to port, impossible to track through supernatural means because it’s over the water. His old phone is gone; Valentine had thrown it overboard as soon as they’d arrived, and Jace is too cautious to try to contact anyone from the one he’s been provided.
His side is tender, smarting. Training had been rough this morning.
“You look like hell.”
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For the following prompt on pacificrimkink:
"I can't stop thinking about how fantastically explicit that inversion of the male gaze scene was, where Mako peeped at Raleigh through her door.
Now all I want in the world is established relationship with mild D/s where Mako just objectifies the shit out of Raleigh. Making him wander around their room/house (can be during or post movie). Grabbing his ass in public and making comments about how hot he is and how much she loves his body when she's riding him (dick or face... or both)
Would prefer it to be mostly teasing, not anything too mean, preferably with Raleigh getting off on it too, on being a little bit embarrassed but tbh I'll take anything along this kind of vein."
AKA, fuck you male gaze, here comes some female gaze. More stream-of-consciousness than anything with a plot.
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So, the first thing that happens is Castiel comes back.
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"Right," Dean says eventually, gruffly. He looks down at his shoes. "I'm not gonna tell you how to live your life, man. It's—you know, yours. Do your thing, love who you love, whatever. I can't really stop you from loving me, if that's what you've decided to do, but I don't—I can't—"
"I know," Castiel murmurs, still just smiling a little, not looking heartbroken at all. "Don't worry about it, Dean, that's all I ask."
"So we're—" Dean risks a glance up, swallowing thickly. "We're good?"
Castiel hums. "We're good."
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“I think we should have a garden,” Cas says.
Dean looks up from his beer. He hasn’t had that much to drink, but Cas still has a vague look of unreality about him, a splash of living color that doesn’t fit in the bunker’s echoing stillness. Dean didn’t hear him coming. A lot of the time, Cas is so unobtrusive it feels like Dean has the bunker to himself, with Sam away.
Dean shakes his head to clear it. “A — garden?” he repeats.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Will wakes with stomach cramps and bad dreams haunting his waking hours. Concerned by his absence, Hannibal arrives with dinner, and an unorthodox approach to mending. A story of queer identity, reminiscing, grieving, and healing from trauma.
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John Watson moves to 221B Baker Street. Unfortunately, the flat's already occupied.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
After being invalided home from Afghanistan, John takes his therapist's advice and tries to meet people online. Specifically, he joins a fetish site, where he ends up interacting with a man called SH who keeps paying him money to perform odd tasks and seems very keen to take care of him.
Basically: slow-build daddy kink.
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"See? I told you I didn’t kill him."
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post-finale, where everyone learns a valuable lesson about communication and smallpox
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Newly-promoted Lieutenant McGraw expected action while stationed in the West Indies. This was not the type of "action" he was expecting, but John Silver is absolutely shameless about pursuing what he wants.
Or, an excuse to write young James and young John thoroughly enjoying each other with no baggage attached.
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Geralt is determined to get everyone he cares about safe to Kaer Morhen for the winter, but neither Jaskier nor Yennefer are inclined to be cooperative - and then the truth of Jaskier's past comes to threaten the present.
Stuck in the fae realm with the thinnest of lies to keep them from being separated, Geralt and Jaskier are going to have to solve their relationship and keep their wits about them if they want to make it out of here intact. At least Yennefer and Triss are willing to help...
...if Yennefer and Triss could get over whatever they've got going on between them.
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John goes to Helwater for Jamie's advice on a certain matter. His stepbrother/lover is to be hanged for sodomy. He can step in, but it may cost him to do so. What will Jamie have to say, given his own past with men who like men?
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Jaskier understood from a very young age that his life was not destined to be a happy one.
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the cheapest room in the house
biggaybenny
Summary:
what if instead of a very sincere and earnest love confession dean just found out cas was gay? no confession, no god-jack endgame. just post-s15 stupidity. just dean being deranged.
the dean downloads grindr for cas fic
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
“Geralt,” Jaskier murmured, thumbing across the first scar he’d sewn, a crescent that curved almost delicately across the top of his shoulder.
“I don’t want your pity,” Geralt growled, turning his head away to face the wall. His hair fell across his cheek and Jaskier hesitantly swept it away to the other side.
“I don’t pity you,” Jaskier assured him, too caught up in the moment to watch his tongue. “I hurt for you.”
